20-Year-Old Coined ‘Best Technology Reviewer On Planet’

At only 20 years old, Marques Brownlee is taking over the cyber tech world.

Through his YouTube channel “MKBHD,” the young tech-savvy expert, who perfected the art of explaining technologies to the average consumer, has acquired over 1.5 million subscribers and nearly 130 million total views on his 640-plus videos.

In a nutshell, Brownlee is a pretty big deal. Even former Google VP Vic Gundotra called him "the best technology reviewer on the planet right now."

For more than five years, Brownlee has been self-producing and perfecting his craft of video reviews.

He is now a college senior at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. In an interview with Business Insider, Brownlee said he always had a love for technology, and was sort of reared in it, as his father works as a information systems and programming. Brownlee, however, had more of an interest in consumer electronics.

“It was kind of a background hobby; I didn’t have a reason to tell anyone when I first started making the videos,” Brownlee said.

When he entered high school, the then-teen purchased a laptop and began researching on how to learn tricks and customization by watching tutorials, which ultimately inspired to make tutorials of his own.

But his empire was a work in progress, he admits.

“Back then, it was all one take,” he said. “So when I’d make a video, I’d open the software, press record, talk two or three minutes to explain whatever I needed to explain, and I’d just stop and upload it to YouTube. That was it.